"Ming Xiaozhu, the way you look at me is not right, do you think I'm drunk?"
"Your Highness looks so elegant and lucid now, how could he be drunk?" Jiuzhu denied it flatly and gently pinched his palm with her fingers.
"Okay." Prince Chen looked down at the two people's hands holding together, and followed Jiuzhu obediently, only muttering occasionally, feeling bothered about not being able to bask in the moonlight.
"Sister Chunfen." Jiuzhu whispered a few words in Chunfen's ear: "Sorry to bother you, sister."
Chunfen smiled and said, "Please rest assured, Princess. I will definitely take care of this matter." After that, he bowed to Prince Chen and Jiuzhu and walked away quickly.
"Your Highness, shall we go back in a sedan chair?"
"I won't ride in the sedan chair." Prince Chen shook his head slowly, his slightly red cheeks showing a bit of the stubbornness that is unique to young men.
"Okay, we won't sit down." Jiuzhu did not let go of Prince Chen's hand. The palace maids and eunuchs holding lanterns walked silently beside the two of them, lowered their heads and dared not speak.
"Ming Xiaozhu." His fingers were tightly intertwined with hers, entwining endlessly: "I am very happy."
"Um?"
Prince Chen laughed, a laugh that was slightly...satisfied and silly: "I am very happy to marry you."
"You looked very pretty wearing the pinstripes that day." His smile was a little more proud: "You were also cute when you told Zheng Wangnan that you were tacky."
"It turns out that His Highness was in the store at that time." Jiuzhu recalled the first time she went shopping on the streets of the capital with her sixth brother. When she was choosing jewelry, the eldest son of the Zheng family said something like "tangle hairpins are tacky."
"I remember that day, His Highness was wearing a purple robe." Jiuzhu smiled: "His Highness's appearance made everything pale in comparison."
He came riding a white horse, becoming the most beautiful scenery on the street.
But at that time, she didn't know that this handsome young man was the benefactor she had been looking for for a long time.
"So in your eyes, I am the most beautiful?"
Jiuzhu nodded: "Your Highness is the most beautiful and the best."
A big, happy smile appeared on the Prince's face.
"Come up." Prince Chen suddenly bent down: "I'll carry you."
"Your Highness..." Jiuzhu didn't move.
"Do you still suspect I'm drunk?"
My dear highness, you are really drunk.
Jiuzhu lay on King Chen's back: "I'm just worried about tiring you out."
"You only weigh a few ounces, how can you tire me out?" Prince Chen was drunk, but his hand was holding Jiuzhu tightly.
Jiuzhu even felt that even if His Highness fell, he would use his body to protect her.
"I regret it very much." The wind blew Prince Chen's robe, and his voice became ethereal.
"I shouldn't have let you leave alone when we first met." The night and the wine make it easy for people to say what is hidden in their hearts.
"I should carry you back to the capital like I am doing now. I should dress you in the most beautiful clothes and wear the best jewelry." Her heartache almost overflowed: "As long as I am around, no one will dare to let you suffer the slightest injustice."
Jiuzhu rested her head on his shoulder and listened quietly to him describing all the beautiful ideas.
"The cold cakes in Dongcheng are the best, and the noodles in Xicheng are the best..."
She smiled, closed her eyes and listened to his voice, the sound of the wind.
A moon was hung at the gate of Qilin Palace.
Prince Chen stood at the door with Jiuzhu on his back, looking up at the full moon on the eaves of the door: "What is that?"
"That's the moon I gave to Your Highness." Jiuzhu got off his back and pulled him to sit on the steps under the eaves of the door: "Your Highness wants to bask in the moon, I will accompany you."
The full moon swayed gently, and their shadows intertwined to form a round ball.
"No, I don't want the moon." The drunken Prince Chen leaned his head on Jiuzhu's shoulder.
"What does your highness want?" Jiuzhu tilted her shoulders slightly to let him lean on her more comfortably.
"I want……"
"You who accompany me to watch the moon."
The moon was creaking and shaking, and Prince Chen leaned against Jiuzhu and slowly fell asleep. Jiuzhu looked at his peaceful sleeping face and chuckled.
"OK."
It was late at night. When Xiangshen arrived at Qilin Palace, Prince Chen had already gone to bed.
"Aunt Xiangshen." Jiuzhu walked out of the house with her thick black hair loose. "It's so late, it's troublesome for Aunt to come here."
"The Queen heard that several princes had drunk wine, so she asked me to come and take a look."
His Highness seldom gets drunk. In the past, whenever he drank, Her Majesty would always send someone around to watch him. Today, when she came to Qilin Palace, she suddenly remembered that if His Highness drinks again in the future, Her Majesty would not have to worry.
His Highness is already the princess's man, and the princess will take care of him.
"Your Highness has already fallen asleep." Jiuzhu smiled and lowered her voice, "Your Highness looks very well behaved after being drunk."
good?
What misunderstanding does the princess have about His Highness?
Even though she was the Queen's personal maid, she couldn't go against her conscience and praise His Royal Highness Prince Chen for being well-behaved, but Princess Chen did it.
"I feel relieved that the princess is taking care of Your Highness." Xiangshen saw that Jiuzhu had already removed her makeup and stood up to say goodbye: "I will not disturb Your Highness and the princess to rest. I will take my leave."
"It's late at night, please be careful, aunt." Jiuzhu picked up the lantern, sent the incense silk to the palace gate, and called two eunuchs to accompany her.
Xiangjun felt extremely touched. As a palace maid, how could she deserve to be escorted to the door by the princess herself?
She had been in the palace for many years, so she could more or less tell whether someone was sincere or just pretending.
The princess was genuinely worried that her journey to Mingyue Palace would be unsafe.
"Princess, this lamp at the door really looks like the moon." She raised her head and noticed the round moon lamp under the eaves of the door. "When you were imprisoned in the Qian Mansion, your highness was only six or seven years old. The house was stuffy and hot on summer nights. In order to coax your highness to stay cool in the yard, the queen said that as long as you bask in the moon more, the moon lady will bless you."
"Look at me, talking about things that happened over the past decade again." Xiang Xian smiled apologetically: "Princess, please go back and rest. I will take my leave."
"Take care, auntie." Jiuzhu handed the lantern in her hand to Xiangshen, "It's dark and the road is hard to walk on. Auntie, take the lantern with you."
Xiangjun did not refuse. She held the lantern and walked away with the two eunuchs that Jiuzhu had arranged to escort her.
"Someone come here." Jiuzhu looked up at the full moon lantern and said, "Take down the lantern and hang it outside the bedroom of His Highness and I."
May the Moon Lady always bless Your Highness.
Outside Jingzhao Prefecture, Du Qingke walked out slowly from the gate.
He was still wearing the clothes he had worn when he was brought into Jingzhao Prefecture. The brocade robe was wrinkled on his body and had an unpleasant, sour smell.
Fortunately, it was night time and no one could see his wolf.
"Master." The servants of the Du family who were waiting outside saw him coming out and hurriedly took him into the car.
Sitting in the carriage, Du Qingke, who had been patient for a long time, looked gloomy.
All the deeds of those idiots from aristocratic families have now been uncovered.
If he had known that these people were so stupid, he should not have gotten so close to them for the things in their families.
Fortunately, he already has the connections of these idiots, so they are no longer of any use to him.
Thinking of the suffering he had endured in prison these days, he took off his dirty outer robe and said, "Prince An, Prince Chen!"
Especially the Prince of Chen, his lackeys seemed to have clairvoyance and ruined the provocation plans of several aristocratic families.
If he had never trusted those idiots and had not participated in what they did, he would probably not have been able to leave the gate of Jingzhao Prefecture.
Even though the person managed to escape successfully, he still had to pay a fine of 100 taels of silver. The prefect of Jingzhao showed no mercy to the head of the aristocratic family.
"Who is sitting in the carriage? Jinwu Guards are on night patrol. Please cooperate with us to check."
Jinwu Guard?
Du Qingke lifted the carriage curtain: "It's me."
He recognized at a glance that the other party was the Jinwu Guard who took them to Jingzhao Prefecture that day.
Who is it?
Yu Jian heard the other party's tone was full of confidence, as if he was sure that the Jinwu Guards could recognize him.
But……
Who is this middle-aged man with disheveled hair, wrinkled clothes and shoes covered in dust?
"Who are you?" Yu Jian stared at the messy beard on the other person's chin for a moment, then bowed and said, "Please hand over your identity token."
"My name is Du Qingke." Du Qingke handed over the identity token.
"Oh." Yu Jian said in a long voice, nodding repeatedly: "I was wondering why he looked familiar."
The head of the Du family, who was so elegant and graceful a few days ago, has become like this after just being in prison for a few days?
From this we can see that no matter how elegant and graceful one is, one cannot do without the people around him serving him.
"Master Du, please." Yu Jian returned the identity token to Du Qingke and rode aside.
"Thank you." Du Qingke looked at the jade slip deeply and let the curtain down.
Yu Jian raised his eyebrows. What did Du Qingke’s look just now mean?
Holding a grudge?
"Du Qingke has been released, but where are the other family heads?" Yu Jian asked the person behind him.
"The two who abducted a decent woman and beat someone to death were sentenced to death by beheading. The others were sentenced to exile. Du Qingke was not involved and Jingzhao Prefecture did not find any evidence against him, so they let him go."
"But the prefect sentenced him to a fine of 100 taels of silver because he knew about the crime but did not report it."
That's one hundred taels of silver, not one hundred copper coins.
Do those things really have nothing to do with Du Qingke?
Yu Jian didn't believe it.
But the government office is a place that relies on evidence. Even if everyone knows that Du Qingke is suspicious, without evidence, the government office can do nothing about him.
"I heard that Du Qingke is the uncle of the Third Prince's wife. Boss, we sent him to the government office a few days ago. Will he take revenge on us?"
"What are you afraid of? It wasn't us who sent him to the government office. It was Prince Chen and Prince An." When mentioning Prince Chen, Yu Jian had a subtle sense of trust: "Does he dare to take revenge on the two princes?"
"He doesn't dare to touch the two princes, but he dares to touch us."
Yu Jian: “…”
If I could become a lackey of Prince Chen's Mansion, I wouldn't have to worry about Du Qingke's revenge.
The verdicts of several heads of noble families, because they involved beheading, had to be submitted to the Ministry of Justice and the Dali Temple, who would make the final decision.
The Ministry of Justice did not even allow room for discussion and simply stamped its seal, agreeing to the Jingzhao Prefecture's verdict.
There were some discussions at the Dali Temple, but they were all directed at cursing these heads of noble families.
"After all, your ancestors were once prominent. How could they do such a ridiculous thing?"
"They even kept a young girl in captivity. How could such a beast be exiled?"
"I also think that this family head should be sentenced to death."
After some discussion, one more name was added to the beheading list.
"Brother Jiyuan." An official flipped open the confession transcript of the victim and handed it to Ming Jiyuan: "The person who saved this woman's life was actually Princess Chen."
"What?" Ming Jiyuan took the file and started reading it.
[The woman wanted to hang herself on the cliff, but Princess Chen couldn't bear it and stretched out her arms to save her. ]
"The Princess of Chen has a righteous heart and saved the poor woman's life." The official sighed: "In order to prevent the woman from being severely punished, the Prince of Chen also arranged for a doctor to save the life of the assassinated master. It was really well-intentioned."
If the head of the family dies before the verdict is issued, according to the Dacheng Law, the murderer must pay with his life.
His Royal Highness Prince Chen is more humane than everyone imagines.
"My sister is small and weak, I never thought that she would have such supernatural power in an emergency."
The Ming family are all weak and gentle!
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